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Best Iou Poems

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A Debtor's Iou
When in life, what's been borrowed come's due.
Feel blessed if you get an iou.
Just a little more time.
When you ain't got a dime.
And you can...

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Categories: iou, allusion,
Form: Limerick



I.O.U.
Drivel
dribbled from those lips of ours
while climbing streets and chasing cars
peeling back our velum skin
removing duty, tasks again.

Drivel 
trickled from our sanguine lips
reddened by a...

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Categories: iou, adventure, friendship, imagination,
Form: I do not know?
An Iou
An IOU or
Changing of the Guard

For things to be swell, does your head have to swell?
And always have to be bright to ring the bell
When...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: iou, betrayal, philosophy,
Form: Couplet
Iou
He wrote a novel, with just 3 letters, on his headstone
A novel, that was different, to everyone
Timeless, yet eternally grateful
He left thanks, for all those...

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Categories: iou, appreciation, death, family, feelings,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Iou One
I am
You are
IOU One
Let's have fun,
Cashing in

I am that,
I am...

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Categories: iou, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse



Infernal Revenue
RING RING...Hello IRS ... 

What's your take on a dependant child? 
My boys 40, ain't worked in a while! 
I got 8 more kids inside...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: iou, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Infernal Revenue
RING RING...Hello IRS ... 

What's your take on a dependant child? 
My boys 40, ain't worked in a while! 
I got 8 more kids inside...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: iou, giving,
Form: Rhyme
True Confession
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It was a beautiful morning
And a good trip to the Church
           ------
The Church Service's
 ...

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Categories: iou, allegory, business, dedication, faith,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Can You - Question Mark
Can you hear the water in the creek,
Can you see the tears that stain my cheek,
Can you feel the pain that I can’t speak,
Can you?

Can...

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Categories: iou, god, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Letter To the Taxman
LETTER   TO   THE    TAXMAN


We have to give too much in tax payment.      ...

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Categories: iou, funnyme, may, me,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Regretful Love
I love you isn't an IOU but I was hypnotized by your eyes...


8/21/16...

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Categories: iou, lost, love, meaningful, missing
Form: Monoku
Father Time
Oh! Father Time, please help us to understand
Why as children we had plenty of time.
As teenagers going in to adulthood it felt like we could
Live...

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Categories: iou, adventure, age, education, fate,
Form: Free verse
The Box
I am in pursuit, of a box
That I will find later or sooner
Based on the rumor of rumors
I follow the not so yellow brick road
To...

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Categories: iou, confusion, dedication, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse
A Pondering On Women
I wonder why it is that,
Some women work so hard to be chased
That they forget to flirt
With the idea of being caught and embraced.
I wonder...

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Categories: iou, relationship, women,
Form: Rhyme
Redeeming My I O U
REDEEMING MY I.O.U.  
by
JOHN



While in my youth I was faced with a dire need
An issue that threatened my path to succeed
My options were fading...

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Categories: iou, allegory, appreciation, character, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs